Tomasz Kamusella
Tomasz Kamusella is a Polish scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research in language politics, nationalism, and ethnicity.
Education
Kamusella was educated at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Philology in Sosnowiec Campus, Poland; Potchefstroom University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; and the Central European University, Prague Campus, Czech Republic. He obtained his doctor degree in political science from the Institute of Western Affairs, Poznań, Poland and habilitation in Cultural Studies from the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.Academic career
From 1994 to 1995, he taught in the Language Teachers' Training College, Opole, Poland, and between 1995 and 2007 at the University of Opole, Opole, Poland. From 2002 to 2006, he did postdoctoral research in the European University Institute, Florence, Italy; the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, United States; the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria; and the Herder-Institut, Marburg, Germany. As visiting professor, in 2007 to 2010, he taught Central and Eastern European History and Polish History and Politics in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, in 2010–11 at the Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland; and in 2011 did research in the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Since then, he has been teaching in the School of History at the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.Civil servant
In 1996, he was employed as the Plenipotentiary on European Integration to the Regional Governor in the Regional Authority of Opole. Later, from 1999 to 2002, he acted as Advisor on International Affairs to the Regional President, Self-Governmental Regional Authority, Opole. In co-operation with the University of Opole, between 1997 and 2001, he managed the application in the European Commission, and financing that led to the establishment of the European Documentation Center in Opole. Thanks to his 1998 official European Union Visitors Program visit to the Spanish Autonomous Community of Galicia, in 1999 a co-operation agreement was signed between this Spanish region and Opole Region.Books
Authored books in English
A Dictionary of English Homophones with Explanations in Polish. 1992. Potchefstroom: Potchefstroom University and Katowice: Uniwersytet Slaski, 180pp.The Dynamics of the Policies of Ethnic Cleansing in Silesia During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2000. Prague: Research Support Scheme, 710pp.Silesia and Central European Nationalisms: The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848–1918. 2007. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 386 pp. .The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. 2009. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1168 pp..Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium. 2015. Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot, 168 pp.;.The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity. 2017. Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot, 162 pp.;.Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria. 2018. London: Routledge, 328pp..Limits / Styknie. 2019.. Kotōrz Mały: Silesia Progress., 324pp.Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia: From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation. 2021. London: Routledge, 162pp. Politics and the Slavic Languages. 2021. London: Routledge, 350 pp.- . 2021. Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 310pp & 42 full color maps.
Edited volumes in English
Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations. 2005. Poznań: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 502pp., Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations. 2006. Poznań: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 558pp., Nationalisms Today. 2009. Oxford: Peter Lang. 334pp. The Multilingual Society of Vojvodina: Intersecting Borders, Cultures and Identities. 2014. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University..Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880–1950: Modernity, Violence and longing in Upper Silesia. 2016. London: Routledge, 252pp..The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders. 2016. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 582pp.- . Central Europe Through the Lens of Language and Politics: On the Sample Maps from the Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe. 2017. Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 111pp +10 maps. The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages. 2018. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 412pp.